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black Christmases

black Christmases is the plural of black Christmas.

Meaning of black Christmas

Noun

black Christmas (plural black Christmases)

  1. A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is no snowfall or no ground covering of snow.
    • D. A black Christmas makes a fat churchyard. D. This is, in effect, the same as A green winter makes, &c., as a 'black Christmas is of course a Christmas without snow.1882, William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: Collected from the Most Authentic Sources, Alphabetically Arranged, and Annotated, page 3
    Synonyms:
    green Christmas
    Antonyms:
    white Christmas

Questions about black Christmases

What is black Christmases the plural of?
Black Christmases is the plural of black Christmas.

Words near black Christmases in the dictionary

  1. black children
  2. black chokeberries
  3. black chokeberry
  4. black cholic
  5. black Christmas
  6. black Christmases
  7. black cicadabird
  8. black clam
  9. black clams
  10. black clergy
  11. black clock

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